Yes, I believe pilots are born, especially the good ones.
Everyone is born, some are just more of a natural than others. You have it or you don't and some have it to a certain degree more. I'd rather be lucky than good anyday of the week. Even good pilots die.
^^ I dunno my friend, but I wouldn't take what a bunch of wannabes who haven't logged an hour in a military/Naval aircraft have to say about this topic that seriously. Before someone flames ME for still being a stud and trying to be salty, I will qualify my statement by saying that I was one of those guys who always wanted to do this, did the civvie flying thing for a good few years, and found in hindsight that things are way different flying in the military than I had imagined. Hard to put my finger on it, but I think jboomer put it better than I can (with a whole lot more experience as well of course). It's a lot more "job" and a whole lot more humbling than I would have thought, and I've learned more about myself, my abilities, my (cockpit) shortcomings, and flying in general in the last year of military flight training than my previous 7 years flying as a civilian combined. Things I would have thought made a good pilot based on my civilian experience do not really jive with what I would list now.
You're up in Meridian? You've certainly experienced enough to know how different it is in our world of flying. I saw some studs with quite a bit of civilian time come through and easily humbled, they just didn't have it or enough of it.